Yes, its easy to pull off oneself, so I don't care much other way. Still, it seems pretty weird to me to be able to do ``regex(str)`` but not ``regex.call(context, str)``. This is accentuated when typeof returns "function" for regexes (though it seems ES4 will change this to "object").
Yuh-Ruey Chen wrote: > > Sounds like a good idea to me. On the other hand, this can already > easily be done in ES3. > > Steven L. wrote: >> ES4 proposals include making regexes callable as a function on a >> single string argument, which serves as a shorthand for calling the >> regex's exec method. To further extend this idea, what about also >> including call and apply methods on RegExp.prototype ... > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Add-call-and-apply-methods-to-RegExp.prototype-tp14429329p14457280.html Sent from the Mozilla - ECMAScript 4 discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Es4-discuss mailing list Es4-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss
